The fourth victim of lilacs. Danilin V.

Samara, 1890... Mysterious events end in the city’s bookstores ending in the deaths of people. What is this? Accidents? Murders? What connects these seemingly completely different in age and material position of the victim? Suspicion falls on a young woman who suddenly disappears. The police are going on a false trail and obviously does not seek to find a real killer. And then an amateur detective begins the investigation... There was no such detective in the Russian detective. Absolutely everyone knows this hero: he is a historical figure. Absolutely everyone knows this hero, but many episodes of his life remained unnoticed even by the most zealous and inquisitive researchers. Absolutely everyone knows this hero - but not the way he appears in the notes of the retired second lieutenant Nikolai Afanasevich Ilyin, a witness to mysterious and frightening events. And only this hero - Vladimir Ulyanov - can answer the classic question of the classical detective: “Who is to blame?”